PoemTalk at the Writers House

Episode 66 - Deep heart's core sound: W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

05.15.2013 - By Kelly Writers HousePlay

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Taije Silverman, Max McKenna, and John Timpane joined Al Filreis to discuss William Butler Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" [text], surely his most famous early poem (written in 1888; published in 1890) and a staple of his poetry readings into the 1930s.

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